Leaving this here as I found it fitting with the discussion in this thread.
https://www.convergemedia.org/wokeism-the-new-religion-of-the-west/
That article can be summed up as "OMG! We're losing our Christian Values! Christianity is the only Cure!"
That's as much a dark path risk as Wokeism in my experience.
IMHO, it is more complex and interesting with that. True, it starts by pointing out how "Wokeism" is born as a way to fill the "God-shaped hole in our culture" caused by the rise of secularism - something I agree with (I also agree with the idea that the same "hole" is also filled by para-scientific religions, like extraterrestrial cults).
And, true, it ends by saying that the only solution is a return to Christian beliefs (BTW, this doesn't mean believing is a supernatural God and all the Christian mystic paraphernalia: one can agree with Jesus' teachings simply because he thinks that they make sense, even if he doesn't believe in Jesus' divine nature - something often missed).
In the middle, however, I think that this piece is a clear and powerful dissection of the "Woke" religion, something that gives food for thought to everybody. The, IMHO, most important quote actually comes from an
atheist, James Linsday:
“Some religions look up, they’re looking at God, and they’re afraid of sin, but they’re paying attention to God, and they’re thinking about renewal, they’re thinking about redemption, they’re thinking about forgiveness. And then some religions look down, and all they do is look at sin. If you look up, then religion can be great, it can lead people in spiritual development, community and so on, but if you’re looking down, if you’re obsessing about sin, you’re going to start obsessing about everybody else’s sin too.”...Which is one of the best tools for understand what is happening, for example, at TBP. Something that is reinforced by a follow up quote, this time from a theologian, Nathan Finochio:
“If I’m stuck in the oppressor group and there’s no escaping it, there can be no forgiveness if there’s no repentance, right? Like, isn’t that how it works? So I’m just perpetually a sinner, and I’m just going to continue to perpetuate the oppressor group, and there’s nothing that I can do. Of course, cancel culture is actually the logical conclusion of Critical Theory…because they have to get rid of the oppressor class.”
...Which is, still IMHO, one of the best X-Ray examinations of TBP, their regime of terror (no protests, no communications, no way to defend yourself or somebody else), and even of their permabans.
So, sure, this is a Christian approach to the rise of Wokeism, and it is not surprising that the answers offered are Christian ones. But the examination of the problem itself is objective, in-depthy and crystal clear (the latter being something that many critics fail to consider). This is for sure a link I would suggest to someone who asks me "what is this Wokeism thinghie about".